Robin Cox wrote:
"Steve Peake" wrote in message
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Are all monorail schemes run by loons?

The recent one round here was from Ambersham Group , who I hear
have a history of failed monorail ideas, running from Western
international market to the new brentford football ground. I
couldn't come up with a more crazy scheme if I tried.

I thought it was to run from Heathrow to Hammersmith, along the A4?

Originally, the idea was a monorail from the WIM to Lionel Road, the
proposed site of Brentford FC's new stadium (behind Kew Bridge station).
Currently, Ambersham are said to be developing a scheme to run from
Heathrow to Lionel Road along the A30 and A4.[1] Since Ambersham's
monorail schemes have a capacity of only 1000 to 3000 people per hour,
this doesn't seem very suitable for a football club. On second
thoughts, they could probably cope with Brentford's gates.

[1] http://www.beesunited.org.uk/lionelr...happening.html

The only scheme for a Heathrow-Hammersmith link along the A4 that I'm
aware of was Hounslow's tram idea.
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Richard J.
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